Faculty-Staff Achievements, Nov. 20, 2009

Activities

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, was the respondent on a panel considering "Interdependence and Independence in South Asian Genre Cultures" Nov. 20 at the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Mexico City.  Thompson also serves on the board of the Society for Asian Music and the council of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which convened at the conference. On Nov. 10, Thompson spoke at the "Learning 2009" conference on technology and education in Orlando, Fla., regarding "'Love Me Do': The Beatles and a Tale of Three Drummers" in which he recounted the story behind this historic recording and how technology can help us understand differences between performances.

Publications

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English has published the following poems: "January" and "Tortugas" in Field, no. 81 (Fall 2009), and "Wing Light" in The Southern Review, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Autumn 2009).

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor emerita of economics, was interviewed for a Nov. 19 New York Times "Economix" blog report titled "Q&A: The Real Cost of College."

David Domozych, professor of biology, had his award-winning photograph of microscopic algae featured in the "Cosmic log" published Nov. 19 at msnbc.com.

Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, and his wife Patricia were featured in a recent feature story in the Glens Falls Post-Star,  focusing on the couple's three-part heritage tourism books series:  A Visitor's Guide to Colonial and Revolutionary New England, A Visitor's Guide to the Colonial and Revolutionary South, and A Visitor's Guide to Colonial and Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic America. The books, published by Countryman Press, have been made an alternate selection of the Book of the Month Club, the History Book Club, and the Military Book Club.

Catherine J. Golden is the author of an opinion essay titled "Deliver us a local post office" published Nov. 19 in the Albany Times Union.

Greensulate (TM)

Sue Van Hook, senior teaching associate, biology, saw a product that she has helped to develop show up on network TV. Greensulate™ made its TV premiere Nov. 18 on the CBS program, "CSI: NY." The product appeared on the bottom of someone's shoe as evidence.  Greensulate ™ is one of the mycoproducts developed in the past two years by Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, recent graduates of RPI, in collaboration with Van Hook and several biology students.  This product, along with Ecocradle™, are part of the green technology revolution to replace petroleum-derived expanded polystyrene foams with biodegradable composite materials grown using various agricultural lignocellulosic byproducts and fungi.

 

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